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...described the electoral system as a preselective process which rewards "compulsiveness, stamina, and drivenness," adding that candidates are really just "trying to get through the day without making a mistake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drew Hopes to See Change in Future Election Attitudes | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

...Speed, strength and stamina are the bedrock" on which the team will build its skills, says Felske, who hopes the team will be tougher and better than last year's squad--which didn't do so badly anyway, finishing at 10-7 for the season...

Author: By Erik J. Dahl, | Title: New 'Cliffe Coaches Named | 9/20/1977 | See Source »

...partisan support from his audience by warning that a wage explosion could lead to a Conservative takeover. "I don't want to see those with a different philosophy, or no philosophy at all, taking it from us," said he. "The question is whether we have the guts and stamina to stick to it. We are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Buying Time from the Unions | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...enervating heat compounded by the hot dustbowl winds that strafe the course make Southern Hills an even sterner test of stamina. The course must be watered in the middle of the tournament and on a single hot day will soak up 400,000 gallons of water...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Green Displays Classic Courage and Grace in Open Win | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...Redemptorist order in the U.S., and only five years later was named head of the nation's Redemptorist missions. After two years he asked to be relieved of the administrative burden, which made him an unlikely candidate to be a bishop. But Neumann's quiet spiritual stamina appealed to Francis Kenrick, who had left Philadelphia to become Archbishop of Baltimore. When Neumann heard that Kenrick was recommending him as his successor in Philadelphia, he beseeched nuns to pray against such an appointment, which he considered "a grave calamity for the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Saint They Almost Overlooked | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

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